SLATINGTON, Pa. — A Slatington man has been arrested for allegedly taking an inappropriate photo of a 10-year-old girl.
Douglas Royer, 62, is charged with invasion of privacy, a misdemeanor, the Lehigh County District Attorney’s office said in a news release.
Royer was working on a Lower Macungie Township home’s heating system Sept. 24, the release said.
While he was working under the house, the girl retrieved Royer’s cellphone for him. Royer used the phone to take an inappropriate photo of the girl as she crawled out from under the house, the release said.
The girl said she was unaware Royer had taken the photo, but that he later showed it to her and asked whether he should delete it, the district attorney’s office said. Authorities recovered the photo from Royer’s phone after a judge signed a search warrant, the release said.
Royer was arraigned Thursday before Magisterial District Judge Michael Faulkner and is being held in the Lehigh County Jail on $150,000 bail, the release said. Royer’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. Nov. 4 before Faulkner.
If convicted, Royer faces a mandatory 25-year sentence in state prison, the district attorney’s office said.
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